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[catherwood]

that cloth pic... how do you know it isn't upside down? Other than the "e" and "c", most of the letters are readable as other letters when flipped. The "i" and "j" have no dot (the j can be read as an f upside down). Just a thought.

[soleta]

I flipped my palm over and it didn't help. What if they're related to the hangman puzzles?

[JohnnyCon7]

I just got a new letter from tCotSA. I've barely had time to scan it, so I haven't really looked at the code on the top, but it sounds like we'll be getting the story line soon.
tCotSA Envelope
tCotSA Note Front
tCotSA Note Back

*crosses fingers this helps solve wood and cloth puzzle.*

[djsampson]

By the way Johnny, I nominate you for Best Avatar of 07.

[JohnnyCon7]

Thanks djsampson!

And I haven't figured out the note yet

[JohnnyCon7]

I thought I had an epiphany this afternoon, when I googled DCDD for the hundreth time, and realized the first hit is the "Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development". Then I remembered that our previous "chief puzzler" was from the Netherlands

[RedHatty]

dc ddh eef te enbes tu urm ett ien leden

I see the DCDD reference there - and it is very possible that the words are improperly spaced, just as many of the english words have been.

Leden is members

[negativeview]

[RedHatty]

heeft = has
een = one or a
bestuur = reign, control, stage, administration, rule
met = on, through, against, with
tien = ten

now to make it make sense Nevermind - see negativeview's editted post above

[WebPillar]

Just to let everyone know, I am assembling a group of friends to try to help out here. So, it looks like the triumverate puzzle has been solved... but we are waiting to hear back, correct? We've been led to... the DUTCH site/organization.

I am NOT fluent in dutch (as Johnny asked...) BUT

I DO have a friend who is completely fluent in Dutch... just let me know, and I can run stuff by him... He actually lived in the Netherlands... I think he is fluent in French as well.

[JohnnyCon7]

Well if its not too much trouble could you run our phrase

[WebPillar]

my friend went over the line real quick, and gave a similar (basically exact) translation as what you got. I am going to email it to him today to see if he could rearrange the letters at all and find something else. He also said that the last bit of the sentence didn't really make sense.

[soleta]

Some of the puzzles they've sent have had lines that needed to be assembled with other lines. Perhaps that's the case here, and we're merely missing what might be the end (or beginning, or both) of a sentence. I'm not sure where the rest would be, though, I'm a bit out of touch with the puzzles.

[JohnnyCon7]

Thanks for checking on that WebPillar. Thats what I sent in to tCotSA, and they told RedHatty

[TurtlesPace]

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